Playboy businessman Ze Nxumalo bankrolled Mashazi’s R3.5m private jet for London jaunt
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My F*k, Mzansi | Money 4 Nkandla, Paul’s flat Cape walk and the municipal implosion squad
In this week’s edition of My F*k, Mzansi, we go back to the fire pool era as another Nkandla scandal emerges (which suprisingly doesn’t affect taxpayers), we try to find out why the dark prince walked the Cape Flats flat, and forget the Bomb Squad – we have the municipal Implosion Squad.
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- 'I didn't enrich myself': Fraud-accused MK chief whip says R200k was for Zuma's Nkandla home MK Party chief whip Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi says that a fundraising drive at the centre of a fraud case against her was a "voluntary contribution initiative" intended to support Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead and not a scheme to enrich herself.
- Joburg: Too broke to fix potholes, not too broke to hire hundreds of executives While the City of Johannesburg continues to drown in debt, it plans to increase its workforce by more than 2 000 personnel in the next financial year, with a major part of the increase in senior positions.
- Phala Phala impeachment committee to elect chairperson on Monday The National Assembly's impeachment committee will meet on Monday to elect its chairperson.
- Reserve Bank pulls the trigger on interest rate for the first time in three years The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) increased the interest rate by 25 basis points in light of massive risks to inflation, as the hopes for a quick end to the Middle East conflict have faded.
- South Africans pay most in needless visa extras as VFS profits top R3bn For many South Africans, applying for a visa begins with the familiar frustration of bank statements, employer letters, payslips, photographs, appointment slots, steep fees, and the knowledge that a single missing document can send the whole process back to square one. Usually, without any recourse or refund.
- Something fishy: A tuna mystery on Checkers shelves Why do three tins that are apparently identical have massive variances in the amounts of fat and salt in each one?
- 'Don't forget Glock': Pretoria Boys pupil who threatened to kill teacher will stay in class A top boys' boarding school in Pretoria had to drag the Gauteng Department of Education to the High Court to expel a pupil who threatened to shoot a teacher.
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